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  1. Just imagine if liberals cared as much about the law-abiding parents being permanently separated from their children in Chicago -- 12 more this weekend -- as they did the illegal immigrants being incarcerated while their children are held in detention centers awaiting deportation. 

    But that will never happen because it would lead to the admission that Chicago is a 21st-century plantation with Democratic masters like Rahm Emanuel, Dick Durbin and Mike Madigan exchanging base-level subsistence for votes to keep them in power.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Alt-left likes to throw drinks on people. Not nearly as bad as running people over in cars tho, ammirite???

    Or as bad as shooting our elected officials at baseball practice, huh? 

    This is what Maxine Waters' America looks like. If you cast a vote for a Democrat, you're supporting her vision. Period.

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  3. 2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Right wingers murder people on the reg and no complaint from OP. Charlie Kirk gets water dumped on his head and suddenly liberals are the real fascists. That makes sense.

    1) Which right-wingers are murdering people? 

    2) I guess you strongly condemn this Antifa attack in the strongest terms possible? 

    https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/08/06/recruiting-operations-continue-after-berkeley-protesters-target-window-of-marine-recruiting-station/

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  4. 7 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    When you're reduced to making a laughably absurd statement like the "unparalleled success this president is enjoying on domestic and foreign fronts," it's a pretty good sign that you think your guy is failing.

    What frustrates you more... the booming economy that's positively impacted all sectors of the workforce or the rebirth of America as a global military power, highlighted by the eradication of ISIS in Iraq and Syria? 

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  5. 8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Also, the first thing you should have learned in a UT journalism class, assuming your tiny brain wasn't drenched in chlorine:

     

    That's actually not what the First Amendment says. It says "Congress shall make no law..." If you want to define a president claiming a media report as false as somehow being interference, then you can do so. But there's not a First Amendment violation when the subject of a report who holds political office says it's inaccurate or when the subject of a report who holds political office criticizes the source.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    A press secretary shouldn't need the President's permission to say the press isn't the enemy of the people because he shouldn't be saying it in the first place.  This is America 101.  Like not conspiring with Russia against our own countrymen or equivocating for Nazis.  

    Eagle out front shoulda toldja. 

    He didn't say the press was the enemy of the people, but by watching CNN's false reporting you've been led to believe that. 

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    Trump also isn't inspiring a "hate movement" against the media but again, if you're watching CNN you'd be led to believe that. First of all, the term is reserved for those persecuted based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender or sexual preference and not career choice. Secondly, Trump has not called for "hostility or violence" against any member of the media. But, you know, aside from those two issues that make this an inherently inaccurate statement, I guess this is somehow acceptable in today's media? 

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I wasn't but I didn't bitch about it 24/7 like the Trumpkin snowflakes do with CNN. 

     

    That's probably because of 1) the criticisms were grounded in truth unlike the CNN vitriol and 2) you clearly don't understand what the role of the media in our representative republic is.

    Also, can you think of a time when a reporter from a news network has told the president's press secretary what she should be saying? Acosta's tantrum last week was a complete abandonment of what the roles of the reporter, the press secretary and the president have been in a White House briefing. The press secretary gives a statement, then explains what the president's position is in response to questions from reporters who've been called on. It's not, and it never has been, the role of the press secretary to give his or her opinions on topics.

    Of lesser concern is that Acosta was having to shout down his peers in the media in order to engage in his grandstanding prima donna act. If Acosta wants the press secretary to say that the press isn't the enemy of the people, then he should run for president so he can direct the press secretary to say that. 

    Additionally, Acosta's tantrum reeks of gender bias/misogyny, but few pundits would dare comment on that aspect of the exchange when the liberal perspective is that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a "traitor to her gender." 

    All of this is why CNN has become a farce. If more than 800,000 people were watching, I'd be concerned about it. As it is, it's simply another distraction from the unparalleled success this president is enjoying on domestic and foreign fronts. 

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  8. On 8/3/2018 at 11:02 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    You do know the media serves the public and not Trump right? The media is supposed to be critical of those in power. It’s a form of accountability.

    Trump doesn’t like accountability so he demonizes anyone critical of him.

    this isn’t difficult 

    Funny... in J312 class and subsequent journalism classes at UT I was taught the role of the media was to provide citizens with accurate information. 

    But if you want to believe it has a completely different role -- to be critical of those in power -- then we can easily see why whether or not there is accuracy in the criticism is completely irrelevant to you and your Trump-hating ilk.

    By the way -- were you a huge supporter of Fox News, Rush, Hannity, Breitbart, Drudge, etc. for their criticisms of Obama? I must have missed those posts during that eight-year period in which you believed the media was supposed to be critical of him and the Democrats. 

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  9. 5 hours ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    Even if that were true, it still wouldn't explain why Rocket Man stopped launching missiles into the Pacific at a rate of one every three weeks. On the other hand, seeing three carrier strike groups off his coast probably served as a wake up call when his generals explained to him what each would be capable of accomplishing in the span of three hours. 

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  10. 58 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Ah yes, let's credit Trump for getting the North Koreans to [checks notes] continue returning American KIA remains, which they've been doing since 1990.

    Yet had not done since 2004. C'mon... at least have some integrity in what you're posting. 

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  11. Hmmm....

    1. Zero missile launches or nuclear tests since November 2017, following a 12-month period in which 18 such tests had been conducted.

    2. "Satellite imagery reviewed by 38 North , a website that covers North Korea, suggests North Korea is dismantling key parts of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, where Kim has presided over the launch of rockets meant to put satellites in orbit. So far, a rail-based site for transporting the rockets and a vertical engine testing stand have been dismantled, 38 North reports."
    https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-dismantles-sohae-missile-site-satellite-launch-vehicle-win-for-trump-2018-7

    3. "North Korea transferred the remains of an unspecified number of soldiers killed in the Korean War, the White House said on Thursday, a first step by Pyongyang to implement an agreement made in a landmark summit in June in Singapore. The repatriation of remains of U.S. soldiers missing in the 1950-53 conflict is seen as a modest diplomatic coup for U.S. President Donald Trump because it was one of the agreements reached during his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12."
    https://www.ntd.tv/2018/07/27/north-korea-transfers-remains-of-korean-war-soldiers-white-house/

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  12. You're right... you're right.... we should only listen to ONE side of the economic argument, such as what Nobel Prize winners like Paul Krugman offer. Anyone else is just completely unqualified to comment on the situation, especially when they restrict their arguments to presenting numeric data. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/paul-krugman-the-economic-fallout

    "A global recession with no end in sight..." 

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  13. And here's a detailed explanation on why the DO matter, especially in the wake of/as a contributor to the loss of manufacturing jobs. 

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    To start, it’s not inherently a problem for a country to have a trade deficit. For example, a fast-growing economy pulls in more imports as it expands, which pushes a country’s international trade account toward deficit. In that context a trade deficit is good for the economy, allowing the country to consume and invest more than if it maintained balanced trade. This was the story in 2000 when, after four years of strong growth, the American economy had an unemployment rate of 4 percent and a trade deficit that amounted to 3.7 percent of GDP.

    But that story ended after the recession in 2001. The economy didn’t get back the jobs it lost in 2001 until January of 2005—then the slowest employment recovery since the Great Depression (it’s since been outdone in slowness by the recovery following the Great Recession). The trade deficit during this period continued to rise—the dollar was then over-valued, making U.S. goods less competitive internationally—eventually peaking at almost 6 percent of GDP in 2005 and 2006. In the early aughts, then, the growing deficit was not associated with a strong economy but a weak one. ...

    What effect does all this have on American workers? Trade deficits, even in times of strong growth, have negative, concentrated impacts on the quantity and quality of jobs in parts of the country where manufacturing employment diminishes. Even the economists who argue (incorrectly, we believe) that the trade deficit doesn’t affect the total number of jobs do admit that it affects the composition of jobs. There is, for example, a lot of research confirming that deindustrialization in the Rust Belt is partly a result of the fact that America meets its domestic demand for manufactured goods by importing more than it exports. One oft-cited academic study found that imbalanced trade with China led to the loss of more than 2 million U.S. jobs between 1991 and 2011, about half of which were in manufacturing (which worked out to 17 percent of manufacturing jobs overall during that time).* Further, the economist Josh Bivens found that in 2011 the cost of imbalanced trade with low-wage countries cost workers without college degrees 5.5 percent of their annual earnings (about $1,800). Far from a small, isolated group, these workers represent two-thirds of the American workforce.

    But as the average Shaggy liberal lawyer couldn't care less about the plight of America's middle class -- wrongly assuming Barack Hussein Obama, II was correct in saying those manufacturing jobs weren't coming back -- there can be no acknowledgement of learned economists making an argument of why trade deficits DO matter and why Trump's victories in trade wars with the EU and China will eventually benefit most Americans. Here are some folks who understand that, though. Their steel mill has opened up two blast furnaces since The Donald went to Washington. 

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    https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/trump-trade-deficit/509912/

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  14. Barack Hussein Obama, II allowed the European trade advantage against us to expand with complete indifference to its economic impact on American workers, especially those in the manufacturing sector. (Remember, "those jobs aren't coming back.") If you want to believe borrowing money from China to buy heavily tariffed products from Europe is a sound economic policy, then by all means continue to lament today's developments. 

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  15. Mrs. Clinton Undermines Democracy from Under the Tent She’s Wearing

    “Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has accepted the will of the voters…” Let me read that to you again: “Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has accepted the will of the voters, even in extraordinarily close races… Mr. Trump insisted … that the general election has been rigged against him, and he twice refused to say that he would accept its results. … ‘That’s horrifying,’ Mrs. Clinton replied. ‘Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position."  ...

    "Why, it’s Hillary Clinton, who still can’t get over it, who still talks about it in every speech that she makes — including when she shows up wearing a tent. Did you see that picture over the weekend? She was being interviewed by Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow, and she was literally dressed in… It was fashionably called a muumuu.

    "But, folks, this thing was an actual… It was a sheet! It was a designer sheet, and it wasn’t even Boll & Branch. It was… It was… (sigh) It was a tent! She was wearing a tent, and she was whining and moaning and talking about how tired she was and how exhausted. Now, who is it that’s threatening our democracy? Who is it that’s refusing to accept the results of an election to this day? Why, it’s all of these people from the New York Times to the Hillary Clinton to the media who were saying back in 2016, “What Trump is saying is really troubling. This is not the way our democracy works.” No, it’s not. That’s why I say these people are doing more to damage the integrity of our elections than anything Putin could dream of.

    https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/07/23/mrs-clinton-undermines-democracy-from-under-the-tent-shes-wearing/

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  16. 17 hours ago, Tom said:

     

     

    Ambassador Stevens' family have implored Republicans to quit using their dead son for politics and have said they don't blame Clinton for his death. Apparently hyper-partisan Kris Paronto and shitheel Swam didn't get the message.  

    Someone on the ground during the attack doesn't lose his right to call out Hillary's hypocrisy because the mother of one of the FOUR victims declines to do so.  ... and I love that Hillary backers can't acknowledge how completely correct he is in his assessment. 

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  17. 19 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    How do you know?

    Because they were pointed out to them in the comments thread. The first time they changed the date. After the second mistake was pointed out to them, they made the second change.

    9 hours ago, Skyline said:

    They fixed it when pointed out because it’s most likely they didn’t know they made the mistake until shown. Yes it’s a dumb typo that should’ve been caught, but to claim it’s bias or proof of something ulterior is dumb. 

    Swam... do you believe CNN intentionally lied about the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? This just seems like a simple typo that probably happens everywhere, and fixing it ASAP is how it’s done. 

    It shows America's "most trusted name in news" is packed with reporters and editors who have no grasp of one of the most basic elements of American history.
    Not understanding what the Emancipation Proclamation did or why it was issued is not "a simple typo" -- it's a fundamental misunderstanding of our nation's centuries-long battle to end slavery. It also falsely perpetuates the idea that one person ended slavery when, in fact, it was the effort of hundreds of thousands of men giving the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield and scores of "privileged white men" amending the Constitution to end the horrific chapter.

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  18. 4 hours ago, Skyline said:

    Looks like they realized the errors, corrected them, and even added a note below stating what was wrong. 

    Seems like you're just wanting a reason to be mad at CNN due to prior biases. 

    They "realized their errors" because they were pointed out to them after they were published. I mean, c'mon ... claiming Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1860? You know, when he wasn't even president... That's a pretty huge gaffe for "the most trusted name in news."

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  19. CNN's fake news extends to fake history:

    Attempt No. 1: "President Lincoln's 1860 Emancipation Proclamation said all slaves were free."

    Attempt No. 2: "President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation said all slaves were free."

    Attempt No. 3: "President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation said all slaves who lived in states that had seceded from the US were free. The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, formally abolished slavery in all of the US."

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html

    When your writers and editors couldn't pass an eighth-grade U.S. history class, how can they be trusted to accurately present information on the nuances of worldwide 21st-century geopolitical developments? 

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  20. On 7/16/2018 at 8:37 PM, kevwun said:

    Does knowing you have supported a traitor make you feel better?

    Wait... is it it Wednesday or Thursday? Which days is it that his America First position is driving an irreparable wedge between our country and the rest of the world and which days is it that he's Putin's puppet? It's almost impossible to keep up with the left-wing anti-Trump hyperbole.

    Oh, yeah... almost forgot. Hillary Clinton will never be president. 

     

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